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Message Handling for JES3 Consoles

To determine whether a session is running on a JES3 console, CA Automation Point looks for the screen to display IAT7185 in column 1 and S.P. in column 70. CA supplies a JES3 state script in the active rules file JES3.scr that slows the JES3 console's scroll rate to allow CA Automation Point to keep up with it. To use the script, you need to write this rule:

TIME(00:00) EVERY(1 MINUTE) MATCHLIM(1)
SCRIPT((JES3.SCR) SESSION(sessname))

Note: CA Automation Point does not run the JES3 state script automatically. You must run it through a rule.

If you have defined a pause script for this session and you pause automation—either globally or for this session—CA Automation Point executes the pause script. (A pause script returns the console to the state it was in before CA Automation Point executed the state script.) When CA Automation Point is not monitoring the console, the pause script places the console in the mode in which the operator normally uses it. CA provides a sample pause script called pause.scr on the CA Automation Point distribution media.

When the screen is full, the messages on a JES3 console wrap around, overwriting the older messages. A dashed line separates the older messages from the newer ones. CA Automation Point follows the dashed line when processing JES3 messages.